his letters and also painting. >> as you say, julia said i didn't want to make a movie about vincent van gogh. ed to make a movie where you, willem dafoe, were willem -- vincent van gogh. >> yes. i think the way the movie is shot and the way we approached d it we wao find out what -- we tried to imagine what it would be like to be with his thoughts and be with him doing the things that he did. so we shot in the actual places helper -- he were. i was paintiap. thoach was not so much an interpretation as a desire to inhabit or imagine, have the audience be with him. it's a very subjective camera, and you're with him all the time. ? and that is absolutely clear throughout. as a viewer i really did feel that. tell me because it is remarkable how you were taught to paint by your painter director. >> he starts me out as you would think with very basic things, how to hold a brush, how tthkeep gs in order, all those sorts of things, technique, craft things. but i think more significantly he really shifted how see. he talked to me a lot about making marks and the accumulation marks and marks talking t

a new film about dutch painter vincent van gogh debuts this weekend us in a must to attorneys that gate starring well and to follow it tells the story of the latter years of van gogh's life will take a closer look. and we'll also look ahead to tonight's germany russia friendly we'll hear why this match is so important for the german squad and coach joachim loew that's all coming up in two minutes talk. of. a melting pot of cultures. a philosophical faith. a smorgasbord of concerns. a benchmark for. global. for students school in the jungle. first economy lesson in the doors granholm is arrives. joining a regular jane on her journey. to freedom. in our interactive documentary during an orangutan returns home on t.w. don't come to tanks. you can tell a lot about a society by its garbage. its use from worthless for the rich but for many poor people you don't first their only chance of survival. tonight could be lunch for today just like you. know reporters travel to nairobi and to work and people know the true value of garbage. it has created a thriving parallel economy. what does all this

installations illuminate the city center and its many can now see one of the works on show is based on vincent van gogh famous paintings starry night. visitors going to experience the light art works on foot or by. last year around a million people flocked to the amsterdam light festival. the exhibition leonardo john. the faces of genius opened its doors in madrid on thursday the renaissance man's works are being shown in two venues. on the national library sketches models and paintings are on display this will be the first of many exhibit in the coming months being held to mark the five hundredth anniversary on may the second twenty nineteen of the a talian geniuses this. works from photographer joel sartoris photo arc project are currently on display at the core doherty are not gallery in lisbon the animals depicted are threatened with extinction so torrie has traveled to more than forty countries in the last two decades to photograph these creatures these archival eventually feature portraits of an estimated twelve thousand species he says photo or will document the animal's existence and inspire pe

that's a clip from the new biopic about dutch painter vincent van gogh for your film at eternity's gate they use in us there are some friday night stars u.s. actor william willem dafoe you don't lucozade editor michael korea give us a preview welcome michael there have been a lot of films about vincent van gogh is there anything special about this book well indeed first of all sides willing to him he has this is very special. first of all and the film is a portrait of the last years of the life of instant hunger it's journey into his mind perception is ultra also i'm a major theme would really different it's been done by another painted julian schnabel which is by the way a friend of william defoe and so while they still had a script some things were born out of ideas improvisation they came up with during filming the film doesn't really want to explain anything just wants us to show the world through photographs eyes his painting changed a lot in the last years you know it was also when he was most productive it became came at a price as we all know he had major mental problems but for

look at cobie she directed the oscar nominated movie loving vatsal about the life and art of vincent van gogh well the film is the world's first fully painted feature we met up with a director to find out how she revolutionized animation using the oldest visual medium. loving vincent brings to life the story of dutch post-impressionist painter vincent van hall in his own pictures it's the first ever feature to animate paintings on canvas. it was polish artist who first came up with the idea. when i saw the paintings i think this is perfect because he paint that his life. as he saw it that's what's in the paintings was really tempting because i felt if you bring the paintings to move in front of you i say. after it was shot with actors over one hundred painters and get down meticulously recreated each frame by hand to bring this dream to life. and her husband and co director she will lead the team that put together this truly unique film. it's like almost like you know putting out the possible because you you've got the paintings and you don't really want to change them to more you've got the

storage and showroom christopher paints about three hundred canvases a year his enthusiasm for vincent van gogh and the impressionist began when he was still a child but. i was eight when i started getting interested in art. and my parents supported me from an early age i started getting painting lessons when i was very young mountain reached today he sells his paintings to art museums and collectors worldwide. the oil think that he uses by the bucketful costs four hundred euros for a pail like this. if i work really intensely for a week then i might use thirty to forty buckets. because. christopher records the changing face of the one series that he started back in two thousand and eight shows how the heart of the city is evolving with the balances he palace is being reconstructed. a few weeks ago the artist put these works on display underground in a subway station which is being built close by. the big theme in all christopher lame fools work the beauty and power of light the artist often looks like an oil painting himself after completing a work. one outfit picture and i couldn't go to a co

. >> his story is almost as famous as his art, vincent van gogh. my conversation with the actor willemoe who's playing him on the silver screen.

now he plays vincent van gogh in his final years in the new movie "at eternity's gate." >> i thoughtthink that anymore. now i just think about my relationship to eternity. >> what do you color eternity? >> sometimes they say i'm mad but in the grain of men, that's the best of art. >> "at eternity's gate" is distributed by cbs films and willem dafoe joins us here. rolling stone said it's your best performance. it's not really about the painter but it really focuses on the painting. >> it is about painting and it was important for me to paint in the movie and that really became the key to unlock iing van gogh >> didn't julian say "you're not holding the brush right?" >> yes, it's important. there's a lot of painting in the movie and we did some long takes. and i do painting in realtime in the movie. but it was important mostly to -- he taught me many things about painting. how to make marks, how to paint light. it really changed how i see and that was essential and that's the heart of the movie because if you can get into how to look at van gogh's work, you can get in his head and that